For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, from today
there will be two Popes living in the Vatican.

After a two-month stay at the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo, Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI will arrive back this afternoon by helicopter to move
into his permanent retirement home.

Benedict, 86, plans to live out his final years “hidden from the world” in the
newly converted four-storey Mater Ecclesiae convent on the Vatican hill,
with spectacular views across Rome to the Apennine mountains.

The former Pope, surrounded by his books, piano and the writing desk he